diff --git a/doc/publican/sources/Client.xml b/doc/publican/sources/Client.xml
index a1e3341..fcdd2f2 100644
--- a/doc/publican/sources/Client.xml
+++ b/doc/publican/sources/Client.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     created and manages each open connection to a server. At least one
     <link linkend="Client-classwl__event__queue">wl_event_queue</link>
     object is created for each wl_display, this holds events as they
-    are recieved from the server until they can be
+    are received from the server until they can be
     processed. Multi-threading is supported by creating an additional
     wl_event_queue for each additional thread, each object can have
     it's events placed in a particular queue, so potentially a
diff --git a/protocol/wayland.xml b/protocol/wayland.xml
index 88bbbc0..041e5f0 100644
--- a/protocol/wayland.xml
+++ b/protocol/wayland.xml
@@ -1764,7 +1764,7 @@
     <enum name="subpixel">
       <description summary="subpixel geometry information">
 	This enumeration describes how the physical
-	pixels on an output are layed out.
+	pixels on an output are laid out.
       </description>
       <entry name="unknown" value="0"/>
       <entry name="none" value="1"/>
@@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@
     <request name="set_sync">
       <description summary="set sub-surface to synchronized mode">
 	Change the commit behaviour of the sub-surface to synchronized
-	mode, also described as the parent dependant mode.
+	mode, also described as the parent dependent mode.
 
 	In synchronized mode, wl_surface.commit on a sub-surface will
 	accumulate the committed state in a cache, but the state will
diff --git a/src/wayland-client.c b/src/wayland-client.c
index 9adde38..ed108e1 100644
--- a/src/wayland-client.c
+++ b/src/wayland-client.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static int debug_client = 0;
 /**
  * This helper function wakes up all threads that are
  * waiting for display->reader_cond (i. e. when reading is done,
- * canceled, or an error occured)
+ * canceled, or an error occurred)
  *
  * NOTE: must be called with display->mutex locked
  */
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ display_fatal_error(struct wl_display *display, int error)
 
 /**
  * This function is called for error events
- * and indicates that in some object an error occured.
+ * and indicates that in some object an error occurred.
  * Difference between this function and display_fatal_error()
  * is that this one handles errors that will come by wire,
  * whereas display_fatal_error() is called for local errors.
diff --git a/src/wayland-util.h b/src/wayland-util.h
index a4b22b5..2bc3ff5 100644
--- a/src/wayland-util.h
+++ b/src/wayland-util.h
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ union wl_argument {
  * object on which the callback is being invoked (either wl_proxy or
  * wl_resource).  The third and fourth arguments are the opcode the wl_messsage
  * structure corresponding to the callback being emitted.  The final argument
- * is an array of arguments recieved from the other process via the wire
+ * is an array of arguments received from the other process via the wire
  * protocol.
  */
 typedef int (*wl_dispatcher_func_t)(const void *, void *, uint32_t,
diff --git a/tests/test-compositor.c b/tests/test-compositor.c
index da2a55f..89c4140 100644
--- a/tests/test-compositor.c
+++ b/tests/test-compositor.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ enum {
 	DISPLAY_RESUMED = 0
 };
 
-/* Since tests can run parallely, we need unique socket names
+/* Since tests can run parallelly, we need unique socket names
  * for each test, otherwise the test can fail on wl_display_add_socket. */
 static const char *
 get_socket_name(void)
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ client_disconnect(struct client *c)
 }
 
 /* num is number of clients that requests to stop display.
- * Display is stopped after it recieve num STOP_DISPLAY requests */
+ * Display is stopped after it receive num STOP_DISPLAY requests */
 int
 stop_display(struct client *c, int num)
 {